Jimmie Higgins; a story Upton Sinclair Books
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Jimmie Higgins; a story Upton Sinclair Books Reviews
Jimmie Higgins is the Forrest Gump of the "parlor pink" socialist propaganda put out by Upton Sinclair at the turn of the century. A down-on-his-luck, illiterate working stiff who gets caught up in the idealism of the socialist tide that had begun to well up in Europe and the United States in the early 1900s, Jimmie Higgins quickly gets caught up in a whirlwind of events that serve as a morality play for readers of the period. Jimmie meets Eugene Debbs, thinly disguised here as "The Candidate", the perennial plugger of the movement in America. He gets caught up in the party machinery, is hired by German "socialists" to blow up an ammunitions work only to find out that the men actually represented the Kaiser, joins the army to fight European imperialism, and finally ends up in Archangel in the Siberian Arctic to be introduced to Bolsheviks during the little known U.S. attempt to restore the czarists to power. The book is a thinly veiled work of propaganda and Upton Sinclair would never apologize for this. The novel was turned into a movie by the Soviets and was squashed by overwhelming anti-socialist sentiment here. For Upton Sinclair fanatics only. My copy was obtained from the University of Kentucky Press and has been out of print since the 1960s. Good luck in finding it.
Upton Sinclair warned of the Great Red Scare that occurred after World War I in his novel, Jimmie Higgins. The opposition to the war of many socialists prior to America's involvement in it germinated into the isolation movement of the late 1930s. The novel is a biography of a fictional socialist, Jimmie Higgins, who eventually comes to grips with aiding the war effort despite his opposition to the war.
When the novel was written in 1918, the name Jimmie Higgins was familiar to many Americans. Ben Hanford, a Vice Presidential candidate on the ticket with Eugene Debs (known in the novel as The Candidate) used to speak of Jimmie Higgins in his campaign speeches. Hanford wrote a glowing tribute to him in a pamphlet, and Debs referred to Higgins in his campaign speeches. Higgins was a rank and file activist with a red card who truly believed in socialism. His hard work and support made rallies, meetings, and even the Debs campaign for president a possibility. He wasn't the witless Henry Dubb mentioned in the novel, nor was he a scholar. Yet he was informed, basically, about the issues even though he had to take his cue from others on how to approach them.
Long before the movie `Reds' portrayed the ambivalence of socialists toward taking sides in WWI, Upton Sinclair wrote about them here. Working class Germans, who would have `canned the Kaiser' themselves, nevertheless felt their Fatherland was held to a double-standard in American foreign policy. Britain stopped international shipments to Germany, so why couldn't Germany respond in kind? It wasn't Germany's fault that Britain had a much more sizable trade with America and thus, their actions more closely affected America.
Irish Americans also sided with the Central Powers because of their hatred for England. Other socialists bought the argument that American bankers and business sold and lent so much money to the Allied Powers that they had a stake in the outcome of the war. When Eugene Debs said it was a rich man's war, but a poor man's fight - he was alluding to this. The business man who had invested in Britain would spoil for America to get into the fight, but it was the working class who would actually enlist and fight. Some of these arguments were repackaged in the 1930s by isolationist groups such as the America First party. The Nye Commission claimed that the Great World was created by munitions and armaments manufacturers who made plenty of money selling their wares to world combatants.
Sinclair also warned of the Red Scare in 1920 with several incidents in the novel. George Creel led a public relations effort conducted by the government to convince Americans to back the war, but police stepped-up their enforcement efforts to root out protesters on the home front. Jack Reed, Louise Bryant, Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman were among the American communists, socialists, and anarchists deported in the red scare. Some of the comrades of Leesville were based on these people. Comrade Jack Smith, the editor of the Worker in Jimmy Higgins, was probably based, in part, on Jack Reed. Wild Bill Murray probably had some inspiration from Big Bill Haywood, the Wobbly organizer, who left for Russia before he could be arrested. These arrests and deportations all preceded the Palmer Raids of 1920
Sinclair also described the arrest, imprisonment, and court-martial of an American sergeant caught with Communist propaganda. The sergeant was subject to questioning techniques that included torture with water. The way his rights - supposedly protected under the Bill of Rights - were abridged was amazing.
In fact, the torture applied to the sergeant - a water torture - has relevance to discussions today. In the 2011 Republican Primaries, candidates discussed whether water boarding was a valid form of inquisition. Water boarding wasn't developed in 1919, but you can see its precedents here. Readers of this novel will surely have some ammunition in discussing water boarding as a valid technique to question military prisoners.
Jimmy Higgins is a standard Sinclair fare - which means it's a great novel, informative, and evocative of a period of time with political observations long since passed into time.
This is that automatic, it stays fresh like I'm wrapped in plastic... you know you like it, it's callin your name.
Books are classic for a reason.
I was thrilled to be able to download the Upton Sinclair collections, and I am slowly getting to each of the books.
The books were referred to in some of the modern science books I read. That alone made me curious.
I am sure there are professional reviewers out there who have already said what needed to be said in their reviews for all of Upton Sinclair's works. I won't even attempt a review of the novel's content.
I just love that it was free and available to me, a user.
Clearly a socialist storyline, but it is well written and graphically descriptive.
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